Vehicle-bow trimming



(No Model.) F. BUOB.

VEHICLE BOW TRIMMING.

Patented Ja11.4, 1898.

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FRED BUOB, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

VEHlCLE-BOW TRIMMING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,803, dated January 4, 1898.

Application filed July 22, 1897. Serial No. 645,602. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED BUOB, residing I at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Bow Trimmin gs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the method of finishing carriage-bows.

The object of my invention is to form a valance from the bow of a buggy-top.

By my method I obtain a metal valance finish which can be cheaply and easily applied, being more durable than sheet-metal valanoes and serving as a thorough protection instead of injuring the cloth and lining, which is apt to occur with sheet-metal valances.

The features of myinvention are more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a carriage-top finished with my improved valance. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 002:, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are modifications of Fig. 2. Figs. 5, 6, and '7 are views of another modification showing the use of valances.

A represents, say, the front carriage-bow. The front piece of this carriage-bow is given the form of a molding by an ordinary friz- Zing-machine. Any desired configuration may be employed.

Figs. 2, 3, 4:, and 5 each represent different configurations of finish.

c represents the coverin g of the top. 5 represents the lining on the inside of the top. These are attached to the bOW'A and lap upon each other on the front face of the bow Within the groove or depression on the face of the bow, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and that at a point to be protected by the valance-bar.

B represents a covering-bar, preferably the front face being round or oval, as shown. Said bar is bent to the required form and then secured in position by nails 0 or clips secured to the how. This bar not only protects the lapped ends of the lining lying within the groove on the face of the how, but it forms, with the projections formed upon each side of the groove in the face of the how, a neat valance finish.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the configuration of the face of the covering-bar is oval, While in Fig. at it is cylindrical.

A material advantage is obtained by hav ing the face of the bow shaped to give a vallance finish. The depressions or grooves furnish a bed in which the coveringbar rests, and the shoulders of the grooves furnish an abutting surface for the edges of the covering-bars, so that the cloth is gripped, as it were, at the edge of the bar, and the strain on the cloth is resisted by the edges as Well as by the fiat face of the covering-bar, thus preventing the strain on the cloth and lining from having any tendency to tear at the nailholes. The clamping of this covering-bar in this manner makes not only a superior holding device, but allows any desired finished appearance to be given to the front bow.

Sheet-metal valances have been employed to hold the covering and lining in position,

depending upon binding the metal by pinching down upon the bows. In order to be effective, this pinching has to be'so close as to make a bite of the metal on the cloth and lining. \Vhen strain is applied to the cloth or lining, they are apt to tear at this bitingpoint. My improvement overcomes these objections.

I believe I am the first to form a valance of the front face of the bow itself, thus avoiding the necessity of employing a valance-bar made of a separate piece and attached to the bow and obtaining a stronger, neater, and cheaper valance.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. A valance for a carriage-top comprising a how, a groove formed in the face of the bow, a carriage-top covering and lining Wrapped around said how and having their ends overformed in the face of said bow, a buggy-top pression, a valance finish, substantially as covering and lining Wrapped around said bow specified. :o and having their overlapping ends lying In testimony whereof I have hereunto sen within said depression, a covering-bar exmy hand.

5 tended within said depression and over said FRED BUOB.

overlapping ends, said bar being secured to Witnesses: said bow and forming with the exposed por- OLIVER B. KAISER,

tions of said boW, upon each side of the de- E. E. WOOD. 

